March 11, 2013

University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906Monday, March 11, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 94

“About You,For You”

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Jane Goodall Inspires RSO’s ActionsA newly organized RSO on campus aims to follow the goals that Jane Good-all has made prominent. Full Story, Page 5

Hogs Bounce Back With Sweep of Aztecs!e Razorback Baseball team completed a four game sweep of San Diego State over the weekend to bounce back from a bad weekend in Arizona.

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!e slowdown in print ad-vertising revenue has arrived on the UA’s doorstep.

!e Arkansas Traveler, the UA’s student-run newspaper, is projected have a budget de"cit of about $72,000 by the end of the "scal year, a representative of student media said. !e "s-cal year closes June 30.

“I’m trying to balance ev-erything out and "nd ways to get to the end of the year with the least amount of red ink,” said Director of Student Me-dia Steve Wilkes in an inter-view Tuesday.

!e newspaper’s projected de"cit comes on the heels of the much larger $3.3 million de"cit recorded by the UA’s Advancement Division for "s-cal year 2012 and a correction to a December presentation by the dean of the Sam M. Wal-ton College of Business, which le# the impression the college ended last year with a $2 mil-lion de"cit.

Wilkes discovered the pa-per’s projected de"cit when he compiled the second-quarter budget report, which was due in early February, he said.

Wilkes handles the "nan-cial aspects of running student media, which is a department under the division of student a$airs. Student leaders handle content production for their organizations, which include the Traveler, the Razorback yearbook, UATV and KXUA. Student media is a separate department from the Walter J. Lemke Department of Jour-nalism.

Wilkes announced the projected de"cit at a student media board meeting on Feb. 21, according to interviews with Wilkes and several mem-bers of the board.

!e projected de"cit will not a$ect the operations of the other student media organiza-tions, Wilkes said.

!e student media board is appointed by Student A$airs

Traveler Budget Projected to Be Short $72,000

Presidential Can-didate Bo Renner’s ASG experience in-cludes serving as an ASG senator, chair-man of Transit and Parking, and chair-man of the Walton College of Business Caucus.

“Dad told me at a young age that there are plenty of people who will call out problems, but there are very few who will "x them,” Renner said. “I have always tried to be somebody who will be the solution rather than someone who just calls out the problems.”

If elected, Renner plans to permanently provide students with Scantrons, improve parking for o$-campus students and the UA as a whole, consider alternative ways for students to pay o$ parking "nes, and make syllabi available for stu-dents online before enrollment.

One idea that could help alleviate parking issues is to re-locate freshmen parking to a di$erent lot, Renner said.

Renner also said that allowing students to work o$ park-ing "nes through community service would be a great alter-native to paying o$ parking "nes.

“I’ve lived here my entire life, was born and raised here in Fayetteville,” Renner said. “All I’ve known my entire life is the Razorbacks, and no one is going to work harder for it than me for it.”

Ellie Ke%er is running for vice president on Renner’s ticket. Ke%er serves as the campus envi-ronment manager, where she works on various aspects of campus experience as a whole.

If elected, Ke%er said she is most ex-cited to put a syllabus bank online.

!is initiative is bene"cial for both faculty and students because it will give students a heads up about class expecta-tions and hopefully decrease the number of students who drop classes, Ke%er said.

Ke%er said she has already begun work

P r e s i d e n t i a l Candidate Will Simpson served as director of leg-islative affairs in cabinet during his sophomore year and serves as a sen-ator this year.

If elected, Simp-son plans to help the UA reach its goal of becoming a top-20 research university without sacrificing teacher quality.

Simpson is also dedicated to getting

better student seating in Bud Walton Arena and to easing student parking issues by creating a commuter parking lot for freshmen.

Simpson said he would rather ASG be a “go-and-do or-ganization instead of a come-and-see group.”

He also plans to make ASG activity more transparent to students and to make its website more accessible.

“!e UA is in a good position to grow,” Simpson said. “We just have to control it so that we don’t sacri"ce quality for quantity.”

Ellen Rudolph, running for vice president on Simpson’s ticket, worked as a senator for Residents’ Interhall Con-gress her freshman year and is currently a senator for the Walton College of Business. Rudolph helped re-create an organization called Greeks Going Green along with her opponent Ellie Ke%er. Rudolph serves as vice president of the group.

If elected, Ru-dolph said she wants to make Homecom-ing a more sustain-able event, open up communication lines between dif-ferent groups on campus to encour-age more collabora-tion and make ASG more transparent to the student body.

Rudolph also said she is passion-ate about increasing the caliber for earn-ing a degree from the UA.

Will Strickland, running for trea-surer on Simpson’s ticket, is a junior ac-

Caroline Potts Sta" Photographer!e Jazz Hatters perform at the Sigma Alpha Iota Bene#t Concert at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Saturday, March 9. !e proceeds bene#t VH1’s Save !e Music Program.

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!ere are multiple public intoxication arrests made ev-ery week on the UA campus. !is past weekend, four alco-hol-related arrests were made.

“A person commits the of-fense of public intoxication if he appears in a public place manifestly under the in&u-ence of alcohol ... and under circumstances such that he is likely to endanger himself or other persons or property,” according to the 2010 Arkan-sas Code.

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to set this legislation in motion. Faculty members are in favor of this idea just as much as students, Ke%er said.

Matt Cha'n is running for trea-surer on Renner’s ticket. Cha'n is a "nance major and the treasurer of his pledge class.

Cha'n hopes to set up a fund to provide students with Scantrons, increase student involvement by hosting more university events and improve campus safety through mobile apps.

“I want to give back to the school who has given so much to me,” Cha'n said.

Ke%er also plans to give stu-dents a better sense of security by bringing a blue-light safety app to the UA.

An app like this could really al-leviate parents’ concerns for their children’s safety and make students feel more secure as well, Ke%er said.

Lindsey Bach, running for sec-retary on Renner’s ticket, serves on the cabinet as the administrative as-sistant to the Fresh Hogs vice presi-dent and the assistant coordinator of membership for the Fresh Hogs program.

Over the past year, Bach has been working on legislation to bring Tusk, the Razorbacks’ o'cial mascot, to live on campus.

If elected, Bach plans to create a Listserv for students who are inter-ested in learning about what ASG is doing.

Of course, this would be optional and only for those students who are interested, but this is one way to get the student body more involved and knowledgeable about ASG, Bach said.

counting major who served as the treasurer of Beta Epsilon Chi and currently serves on the Distin-guished Lectures Committee.

“It is my job to be personable and open to RSOs,” Strickland said. “RSOs need to know that I’m there as treasurer to help them and that my door is always open to RSOs.”

Strickland plans to allocate more money to RSOs and provide students with testing materials by reallocating funds that are al-ready in place.

“!ere is over $100,000 of stu-dent-fee money that has not been allocated to RSOs yet, and that money needs to be allocated this semester,” Strickland said.

RSOs need to be educated on

how to apply for funding, Strick-land said.

“It is a daunting and intimidat-ing task, and they need to know how to do it and be educated on the process,” he said.

Drew Blythe is running for secretary on Simpson’s ticket. Although Blythe does not cur-rently have any ASG experience, she said she feels that the various other roles of leadership she has held have prepared her for the position.

If elected, Blythe wants to make classrooms more user-friendly to students.

“I really want to work on quality classrooms with English-pro"cient teachers,” Blythe said. One idea in the works is to make a UA website similar to Rate My Professor where teacher evalu-ations are public for students to see, Blythe said.

Stewart Pence is an independent candidate running for treasurer. Pence serves as president of Student Organization Outreach and Involve-ment Experience (SOOIE). !rough his work with the program, Pence is familiar with and has experience working with RSOs.

Pence has also had six years of ex-perience as vice president of "nance at a multimillion-dollar fabrication company and serves as vice presi-dent of "nance for Sigma Phi Epsi-lon fraternity.

“I’m here to make sure RSOs get their funding,” Pence said. “I make sure these events run well, they’re publicized, and that processes and procedures are well-maintained.”

Pence said he chose to run with-out a ticket to challenge the system.

“Even though I am a Greek candi-date, I feel that our campus does not represent Greeks well in ASG and as a result we isolate just a segment of the population to vote,” Pence said. “If we do that, we are not a student government; we are a special-inter-est group.”

Weather predictions by the Farmer’s Almanac for this winter hit some high points, but many predictions were not up to par.

Winter in Fayetteville has kept up with the cha-otic weather that Arkansas is known for. !is was to be ex-pected, but the low tempera-tures and 3 inches of snow that were predicted did not come true.

!e average February in Fayetteville consists of an av-erage high of 51 degrees, an average low of 28 and around 1.5 inches of snow, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). January generally sees 2.3 inches of snow and slightly cooler temperatures.

As any resident of Fayette-ville knows, this did not hap-pen. !e Farmer’s Almanac predicted an average temper-ature of 39 degrees in Febru-ary and heavy snowfall in the middle of the month.

!e UA’s snow day on Feb. 20 could be considered in the middle of the month, but it was a far cry from heavy. According to the Weather Channel website, there were 0.46 inches of precipitation on that day. Compared to the foot of snow that the Little Rock area got on Christmas, 0.46 inches is nothing.

!e end of the month also brought the 39-degree aver-age that was to be expected. !e beginning of the month was fairly warm. Two weeks before the snow day, there was a high of 65 degrees.

!e Farmer’s Almanac is also predicting heavy snow between March 13 and 18. !e Weather Channel states that the high should be be-tween 66 and 70 degrees. !e average temperature in the middle of March is 60 degrees, according to the Weatherspark website. While it is safe to assume that the Weather Channel’s prediction will be closer to correct, ei-ther outcome would be much di$erent than usual.

March 18 is also the end of Fayetteville’s cold season, ac-cording to Weatherspark. !e chance of snow on that day based on averages from years past is around 5 percent. Af-ter this, the chances fall until they hit zero in early May.

One pattern worth notic-

ing is the increase of snow &urries. While there were only two, arguably three, days of major snowfall, there were many days marked by morning &urries. It is too early to make any assump-tions until full reports come out about the winter season, but this could be become the new norm. !e past few win-ters have been full of small snowfalls across the United States and a handful of major storms.

If current predictions stay true, it seems that tempera-tures will only be rising from this point on. Fayetteville residents can say goodbye to winter and welcome in the spring weather.

Farmer’s Almanac Winter Predictions Not Too Accurate

Emily Rhodes Sta" PhotographerTrey Cawthon and Matthew Heckman play snow baseball at the Greek !eater, Wednesday, Feb. 20.

PROBLEMS continued from page 1

FINANCES continued from page 1

cation o$ense is by walking with a group of people and doing some-thing out of the ordinary, like stum-bling, walking o$ the curb or kick-ing a trash can, to get the police’s attention. !e amount of arrests for public intoxication in the street compared to arrests in a building is almost equal.

“!e o'cer will go check on the person, will see if they have a &ushed face and if their manor is in disarray or if they smell like alcohol,” said Lt. Gary Crain, UAPD spokesman.

!e police o'cer will then try talking to the person and in doing so will determine if that person is in a

clear state of mind to make it home safely. !e main concern to the po-lice o'cer is if the person can make it home safely without endangering themselves, someone’s property or someone in the area.

“To avoid getting a public intoxi-cation, if a person is out drinking, I suggest to call a cab or a friend, or if walking in the street, do not bring at-tention to yourself,” Crain said.

Getting a public intoxication is a Class C misdemeanor. A person who is charged will have to go to court and either pled guilty or innocent. If the person is convicted, they will have to pay a "ne from $200-500.

ASG Executive Candidate Reporting by Bailey Deloney, Sta! Writer

RENNER TICKET continued from page 1

SIMPSON TICKET continued from page 1

Treasurer Candidates

CHAFFIN STRICKLAND

Secretary Candidates

BACH BLYTHE

PENCE

Stewart Pence Independent Ticket

and is composed of the student leaders for each medium, their faculty advisors, the director of student media and representa-tives from University Relations, the division of "nance and ad-ministration, the Associated Student Government, the Soci-ety of Professional Journalists, and the chair of the journalism department, according to a de-scription on the provost’s web-site.

Traveler Editor-in-Chief Chad Woodard "rst heard about the projected de"cit at that board meeting, he said.

“I was a little bit shocked, but I wasn’t &oored,” Woodard said. “I felt as if we were prob-ably behind some in advertising sales.”

!e bulk of the projected de"cit is because of an adjust-ment to the advertising revenue expected through the year. Wil-kes expects $71,920 less this year compared to last year, according to documents he provided for this report.

!e collapse in advertising revenue is not just a local issue.

Nationally, newspaper ad-vertising revenue has been de-clining each year since 2005,

according to the Newspaper As-sociation of America, a nonprof-it organization that represents newspapers in the United States and Canada. In 2005, the asso-ciation noted $47.4 billion spent on newspaper print advertising. In 2011, the most recent year data is available, only $20.7 bil-lion was spent. !at’s a decline of 56.4 percent in seven years.

Wilkes said there’s no solu-tion right now to cut costs dra-matically enough to reduce the de"cit.

He created some forecast-ing budgets based on di$erent scenarios, such as changing the frequency of publication to just once a week, down from four times a week now, he said.

If the Traveler began pub-lishing once a week beginning March 1, which has already passed, the loss of advertising revenue would be greater than the savings from printing fewer editions, Wilkes said.

If the paper ceased publica-tion in print and went online-only, a big chunk of the poten-tial advertising revenue would be lost and the student workers would still have to be paid, Wil-kes said.

“To me the best course of action would be to let the year play out, for us to work as hard as we can to make this number as small as we can and to make a course correction at the begin-ning of next year,” Wilkes said.

!e paper would need some help from student a$airs or the journalism department to cover the de"cit, he said. !e main thing is to set up a more realis-tic printing schedule that can be sustained over time, he said.

Whatever gap is le# will be met with funds from another department in student a$airs, said Judd Harbin, associate dean of students said by phone Wednesday.

!ose surpluses in other departments can happen in a number of ways, Harbin said. Personnel vacancies can accu-

mulate a sizable surplus, he said.Harbin said student a$airs

doesn’t like to shi# money from one department to another.

“We think each department should be "scally responsible in their own means,” he said. “Hav-ing to ask a department to bail out another department is not something we want to have.”

Typically that de"cit is re-applied at the beginning of the new "scal year, which starts on July 1, he said.

“!ey will start with the de"cits that they had from the previous year, and they would account for those de"cits in the next year,” he said.

!e media board would be responsible for making any de-cisions to change the frequency of publication, not student af-fairs, Harbin said.

“If they came back and said, ‘We want to do something unaf-fordable,’ I think at that point we would have to say that simply can’t happen because we can’t pay for it,” he said. “!e folks on that board are all very rea-sonable. I think once they know what we can a$ord, they’ll work within that.”

Six thousand copies of the

Traveler are printed for each edition, Wilkes said. With more and more people on their smart-phones, print is struggling to re-main relevant, he said.

“I think a print product can be viable, but it has to be more targeted,” he said.

He would like to see a “week-ly plus” edition with a very ag-gressive online component, he said. Wilkes described the print edition as a larger, once-a-week newspaper, with special editions for events such as a home foot-ball game.

Four years ago, the Traveler printed once a week, he said. !at change was based on a so#-ening of advertising sales begin-ning in 2007.

“I strongly suggested to the Traveler sta$ and faculty at that time that we change the paper from essentially a print news-paper with a website to a weekly newspaper with an aggressive website,” Wilkes said. “From my point of view, we saw it and we did something about it, and had we stayed there we wouldn’t have the de"cit today.”

!e Traveler generates most of its money from advertising sales. Students pay a media fee, which is 69 cents per credit hour and is collected to support cam-pus media. !at money gener-ated from that fee is projected to be $396,411 this year, according to budgets provided by student a$airs. !e Traveler is projected to use about $84,000.

“I think the issue here is you can do di$erent things in pro-duction to cut costs but keep what also is needed to support the journalism program,” said Daniel Pugh, vice provost for student a$airs and dean of stu-dents. “Covering the campus is critical. We’re providing op-portunities for students to have real-life experiences.”

Jon Schleuss is a senior in the journalism program. He has

worked for UA student media for the last "ve years.

Megan SmithSta! Writer

“I think a print product can be viable, but it has to be more targeted.”

Steve WilkesDirector of Student Media

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Traveler Quote of the Day“!ere’s a gap between what’s being subsidized with the media fee and

the advertising revenue.”Daniel Pugh, Vice Provost for Student A!airs

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Voter ID Legislation is Unconstitutional

In the course of a single day, we hear about hundreds, if not thousands, of inven-tions that are going to make a profound di!erence in our lives. Sometimes they are positive, and sometimes our doom is impending. Regard-less, I have been really inter-ested in something lately, and I wanted to share it with you. It may just change your life. "en again, maybe not. We shall see.

My interest was piqued when I saw “Skyfall,” the most recent installment in the James Bond series. If you haven’t seen this #lm, please continue reading because the point can still be made. At some point in the #lm, Bond hops into an Aston Martin

DB5. My friends, this is a priceless automobile, and the same model that was driven by Sean Connery in 1965’s “Gold#nger.”

In most movies, when a car crashes, it’s a real crash. In the past Bond installments, Aston Martin simply sold a couple extra cars for the sake of crashing. But this car is dif-ferent. It’s un-crashable. So, what you may be wondering now is, “"en how did the vehicle get shot?” Here’s the cool part: "ree irreplaceable Aston’s were 3D-printed spe-ci#cally to be blown up.

When I read this, I was mind-blown. I looked at my computer and said, “You mean to tell me they printed a car?” Yes, that is what it meant to tell me. And so I dove head#rst into the world of 3D printing, intent on gaining some insight into this novelty — primarily, if we can print cars, can we print prac-tical things?

I am happy to report that the answer is yes. Yes we can. 3D printing is a technology analysts are split over. Some say it has the power to change manufacturing as we know it; others say the power is lim-ited. Either way, it’s here, and I predict it’s about to make an

impact. So, how does it work? Un-

like traditional manufactur-ing techniques, which usually focus on carving some object out of a raw material, a 3D printer manufactures an ob-ject by putting it together in thin layers. It’s basically the opposite approach to manu-facturing. And get this: If you can dream it, you can make it.

"e cool thing about the technology is that once you can design something us-ing a computer-aided design (CAD) program, you can plug it into a 3D printer and have it made. It takes the ob-ject down to a two-dimen-sional level then assembles it in thin layers with either liq-uid plastic or powder that is then hardened by a laser. "is method of design and imple-mentation allows 3D printers to produce extremely com-plex products, like an exact-replica Aston Martin.

You may be wonder-ing how all this could apply to you. Well, in many more ways than one. "is could make manufacturing easier and potentially bring plants and jobs back to the United States through the practical-ity of the medium. It could also put more emphasis on

the need for computer-liter-ate individuals familiar with the CAD programs.

Beyond job bene#ts, the number of things you can print is unbelievable. Ac-cording to Endgadget, a man recently had a portion of his skull replaced by an implant created by a 3D printer to match the exact dimensions of his cranium. At the UA, we may not be 3D printing yet, but it doesn’t seem im-possible. "e printers run from $2,000 to $3,000 and can be used to create things from skull implants to iPhone cases.

"e plausibility of 3D printing is super exciting and could make life for students here much easier. Imag-ine if you had a 3D printing quota! Head over to Mullins and print up a new piece of jewelry, some new shoes or a Frisbee. Although that sce-nario isn’t likely by tomorrow morning, it’s very possible within the next few years. I, for one, am looking forward to it.

TJ Stallbaumer is a sopho-more journalism major in the Advertising/ PR sequence and a sta! columnist for the Ar-kansas Traveler.

3D Printing Has Student Applications

College is a time to get connected. You connect with teachers, family, friends and future employers. "is con-nection moves at the speed of 4G on the iPhone and An-droid smartphones most of us keep in our pockets.

As I near graduation, I am starting to realize my current job as a full-time student fol-lows me everywhere I go. I’m getting nervous. When I was younger, my dad would come home from work and play basketball with me, grill din-ner on the back porch and talk with my mother. When I get home from classes, I’m check-ing my emails, working on fu-ture story ideas for the Travel-er and developing content for my advanced television class.

I’m nervous when I gradu-ate, if I have the typical 9-to-5 job, will a smartphone in my pocket keep me glued to work still?

If I am plugged into the smartphone networks, my employer may expect me to be on the clock at all times simply because access to email at the touch of a button is so simple.

Just under 50 percent of employed respondents to a survey by the Pew Research Center said they were doing work from home, and 18 per-cent said they were working from home daily.

Rather than being split in two, a work life and a home life, work is ebbing into the home at 4G speeds.

I know I would rather not be included with the 49 per-cent of employees who say information communication

technologies (ICTs) like the smartphone, email and tab-lets increase the level of stress from work and make it harder to disconnect from work at home and over the weekends, according to the Pew Research Center.

It makes sense these gad-gets have caused workloads to increase. We can check docu-ments and #les during a cof-fee break. We can send emails scheduling meetings during lunch. We can use our smart-phones to publicize events. We can use smartphones to accomplish work from any-where in the world. We are no longer limited by the bulky desktop computers.

We can work faster, work more e$ciently and, instead of a conference call, problems can be solved with a #ve-min-ute iChat.

However, that #ve-minute chat should not happen at my dinner table. When I go home to Kansas City and sit down with my family, I do not want to be connected to my boss or professors, even if I do enjoy the work.

I personally feel it is obnox-ious of me to expect the peo-ple around me can be put on hold while I am typing away at my phone. It’s the opposite of #ve years ago when I had my Motorola Razr. I would pay attention to the present #rst, then look at texts later.

Now, I get an email and everything freezes until I have read the email, responded and checked my other social me-dia and email accounts.

In the future, hypothetical-ly, if I have a family of my own, will I freeze them as I respond to work requests?

In two months, I will be looking for a job with high expectations for the quantity and quality of my work. But I will also be looking for the job that understands when I am o! the clock, I am o! the clock.

Joe DelNero is a senior broadcast journalism major and the opinion editor of the Arkansas Traveler.

After Work, Turn O! the Smartphone

Among the litany of bad public policies emerging from the 89th General As-sembly in Arkansas, this one may be the most destructive and longest lasting.

State Sen. Bryan King from Carroll County — just northeast of our Fayetteville campus — introduced his legislation to require all vot-ers to show a form of photo identi#cation in order to cast a ballot.

You may be asking, “Why shouldn’t you have to prove who you are to vote?” One of my fellow students here at the UA echoed this question in a column on Wednesday.

It’s a simple answer, en-shrined at least two di!erent places in the U.S. Constitu-tion. "e 14th Amendment to the Constitution reads, in part, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall

abridge the privileges or im-munities of citizens of the United States.”

In short, why should there be any hurdle to casting a ballot, a sacred duty of every American citizen, enshrined in our founding documents and defended by men and women in uniform every day?

"e real answer to why the new Republican major-ity in the legislature wants a voter identi#cation law is equally easy, and much less noble than the stated goal of protecting the ballot. It is proven, in studies like the one conducted by Timothy Vercellotti and David An-derson at Rutgers University, voter ID laws negatively in-%uence the turnout of mi-nority voters — voters much less likely to support Repub-lican candidates.

In the new HBO series “"e Newsroom,” #ctional anchor Will McAvoy makes a very concise statement on why voter ID laws have become so popular: “"is would be called a solution without a problem, but it’s not. It’s just a solution to a di!erent problem. Republi-cans have a hard time getting certain people to vote for them, so life would be a lot easier if certain people just weren’t allowed to vote at all.”

Aside from the fact that voter ID laws are a solution in search of a problem, they are also extremely costly to the state. Republicans al-most always underestimate the cost to get the program passed, then put the burden of enforcing the new restric-tive laws on existing bureau-cracy.

What’s funny is they can’t — or won’t — answer how they are going to pay for providing a new ID to voters — obviously at no cost since we don’t want to create a new poll tax, wink wink. "ey won’t tell us how they will pay to notify voters they have to get a new ID or what the new rules are. "ey won’t tell us how they will pay for new ID machines and forms for processing voter ID requests. And they certainly won’t tell us how they will pay for all the new provisional ballots disenfranchised voters will cast only to be thrown out because they didn’t have the proper ID.

Now they tell us they won’t enact this legislation until the state has money to pay for free ID cards for ev-eryone. I’m not buying it.

Plain and simple, Repub-lican legislators cannot win with minority populations on policy. So rather than adapt or change policy, they

have to #nd a way to keep those folks from voting. Voi-la, voter identi#cation laws.

"e sad fact is with a cur-rent GOP majority and some less-than-stalwart Demo-crats in the legislature, voter ID may easily pass. "e un-fortunate part is the taxpay-ers of Arkansas will have to foot the bill for these new costs and when we are taken to court over the potential unconstitutionality of our new policies.

"e legislators know ex-actly what they’re doing when they try to bring back exclusionary voting laws that limit the citizenship of a cer-tain part of our population. "ey just hope we’re too stu-pid or lazy to #gure it out and call them on it.

When I consider these proposals, I cannot help but think on the men who died to bring the ballot to a popu-lation that was enslaved. Or the women who were beaten, jailed and ostracized for seek-ing su!rage. Or the marchers at Selma and Montgomery. We have come too far to turn back to any policy that limits access to the ballot.

Will Watson is a graduate student in the public adminis-tration program and is a sta! columnist for the Arkansas Traveler.

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“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

!is week, as fashionistas from all over northwest Arkansas gather to see new trends on the runway, UA student design-ers are watching models take the form of what they have envisioned, sketched and sewed together for the past few months.

Senior apparel studies major Alisa May is one of those designers. Seventeen mod-els will display 17 looks that she designed herself.

“I like to think that it’s pretty edgy, but can be dressed down to not look so hard-core,” she said.

May began learning how to sew and make her own clothes in seventh grade. Growing up, she lived in several places in-cluding Dallas, New York and Colorado. She said that having to adapt so much helped her to have an open mind, even in the way people dress.

“When I "rst started in college, I was taking other classes that I was horrible at, and I was like, ‘No, (apparel studies) is where I’m supposed to be. !is is what I’m good at,’” she said.

!e undergraduate program here has helped her because it focuses both on the design and merchandising sides of fash-ion, she said. She took a #at pattern class that taught her how to make her own pat-terns.

May uses what she sees people wearing on the street as inspiration. She aims for her clothes to be wearable, but di$erent, she said.

“!e toughest part is making up my mind,” she said. “I’m the toughest person to work with.”

May also likes to play with trends that are o%en considered feminine, like print-ed pants, to incorporate them into mens-wear.

“I like to think, ‘If women can wear it, why can’t men?’” May said. May described seeing her clothes on a runway as “really vulnerable.”

“Once it’s on a runway, there’s no changing it,” she said. “!e thing about sketches is it’s on paper and it comes to life.”

Designers were also responsible for selecting their own models and coming up with how they wanted their hair and makeup to look.

“!e energy backstage — it’s amazing. All the hype and excitement — it’s great,” she said. “Backstage is organized chaos. It’s a lot of clothes #ying everywhere. !ere are photographers, bloggers … a lot of picture-taking. Some people are really stressed out.”

A%er graduation, May hopes to intern in Los Angeles and is considering work-ing in costume design, she said.

Senior apparel studies major Lindsey Gallagher was not always sure fashion was the path for her. She was a biology major at Hendrix College in Conway before transferring to the UA.

“I always wanted to be a personal shopper, but I was told in career class that that wasn’t a real job … I was always good at science, but I didn’t enjoy it. I feel like I’m good at this, and I enjoy it,” she said.

Gallagher worked at Anthropologie in Little Rock, a clothing store a&liated with Urban Out"tters. !e creativity there in-spired her to pursue fashion, she said.

“I took a sewing class, which was trau-matizing to me at "rst,” Gallagher said.

Prior to coming to the UA, she only knew the basics of sewing, but has now made six out"ts for her Fashion Week collection. Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week will be the "rst show to include Gal-lagher’s designs.

“I’m usually a person who throws things together. !is involves a lot of plan-ning,” she said. “I’m trying to "nd method to the madness.”

One of the hardest parts about design-ing for her "rst show has been making the clothes the right sizes to "t the models, especially since she did not know who her models were until February, she said.

One of Gallagher’s favorite clothing brands is Free People, which has a slightly Bohemian style and is on the pricey side.

“People who have that style don’t nec-essarily have that bank account,” she said. Gallagher said she would like to create clothes with a similar style that people can a$ord.

“I’d like to actually sell clothes to local boutiques … It’s everyday wear that can be considered trendy, but for the right person, it can "t into their style and they can wear it for several years,” she said.

!e cellphone generation is abandoning re-liance on cellphones when it comes to telling time. More than just a trendy addition to daily attire for men and women, watches are a practi-cal, more e&cient alternative to cellphones.

Nearly a third of Millennials surveyed wear a watch o%en, according to an October survey conducted by YPulse, a youth-marketing-cen-tered research group. About 68 percent wear a watch for practicality, and 65 percent wear one for fashion. Men are more likely to wear a watch than women.

!ere are watches for the fashion forward, the always late to class and the adventurous.

“An analog watch looks classy,” said sopho-more Sam Kinect. “I use it to tell time and to not be so attached to my phone.”

A sophisticated, classy watch does

not just mean a brand-new Rolex. Class means leather, and leather watches can be as cheap as $35 from Urban Out"tters or as pricy as a $115 Swiss-made watch from Fossil. Local business-es like !e Mustache sell wooden watches, and Flying Possum Leather will do custom leather watch straps for about $20. Swatch watches, modern, simple watches usually sold in solid colors, are making a comeback from their orig-inal 1983 debut. You can buy one starting at $50, or ask your parents if they still have theirs.

When buying a watch, "rst ask yourself what you’ll be using it for. If you’ll be wearing it every day, invest in a nice watch. If you’re i$y about your dedication to it, buy a cheap watch "rst.

A silver or gold frame will be more expen-sive with lasting quality, and mixed metals and alloys will be more a$ordable, according to an article on AskMen.com.

Plexiglass is the cheapest of watch crystals, the clear face

that protects the actual clock, and the least likely to shatter, but the most likely to scratch, according to AskMen.com. Mineral glass won’t scratch, but is more fragile.

Sophomore Jacob Chesnut wears his watch on the inside of his wrist. “It’s harder to pull my phone out of my pocket,” he said. “!is is on my wrist and I can turn it over.”

Chesnut uses his Timex Ironman digital watch mostly for timing intervals while run-ning and to check his heart beat, a habit his high school cross country coach taught him.

“It has some scratches on it, but that just shows our friendship,” Chesnut said.

Digital watches are a good buy if you’re an active person. Timex and Nike watches are praised for their durability and sleekness, ac-cording to AskMen.com. Digital watches will become more expensive with each feature, in-cluding GPS, timers and pulse monitors.

If you’re just looking for a basic watch, sim-ple $20 digital watches can be found at Target or Walmart. Sophomore Elizabeth Heckmann uses her basic watch just to know what time it is, she said. She also fastened her chapstick to the strap with a hair tie so she doesn’t lose it. It conveniently "ts on the inside of her wrist.

Techies can look forward to the hope-ful release of the Apple iWatch. A recent Bloomberg article reported buyers may be able to make calls, use Siri and check map coordinates with the iWatch.

Madelynne JonesSta! Writer

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Chimpanzees and humans share 96 percent of their genomes, which is an organism’s entire hereditary information, according to the Na-tional Geographic website.

Jane Goodall, who is esteemed for her 45-year study of chimpanzees, gave a lecture to the UA in October of 2012. She also founded the Jane Goodall Institute, which is a non-pro"t organization that strives to empower people to make a di$erence for all living things, ac-cording to the Jane Goodall Institute website. A newly organized RSO on campus aims to follow the goals that Jane Goodall has made prominent.

“I decided to join Roots and Shoots because I liked the aspects that it covered; trying to bet-ter the environment, mentor children and car-ing for animals are all really important things,” said Whitney Owens, wellness coordinator of Roots and Shoots and a sophomore kinesiology major.

Roots and Shoots’ mission is to foster re-spect and compassion for all living things, to promote understanding of all cultures and be-liefs, and to inspire each individual to take ac-tion to make the world a better place for people, animals and the environment, according to the UA RSO website.

We are truly inspired by the life/beliefs and philosophies of Dr. Jane Goodall, said Hope McLemore, senior community health promo-tion major. Her words and challenges are in-spiring and motivating. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to be a part of Roots and Shoots. Even though we have just begun our e$orts as an RSO in support of the Jane Good-all Institute, the very nature of what Roots and Shoots is about seems to have instilled a special spirit and energy in our group.

All students are welcome to attend a meeting that will take place a%er spring break. Members do not have to pay dues, but they must "ll out a form. For more information, contact [email protected].

Roots and Shoots allows members to en-gage, and it is very ful"lling to look into the eyes of the children and animals that R&S has started to serve, said Dr. Ed Mink, Roots and Shoots faculty advisor.

“Roots and Shoots promotes understand-ing of all culture and beliefs because it is a club with values that promote the well-being of the entire environment,” Owens said. “It supports diversity by welcoming any race, culture, gen-der or ethnicity. It is open to anyone who wants to be involved with his or her community and

environment. My favorite thing about being in-volved with R&S is getting to know new people, and seeing di$erent people come together with the common goal of bettering ourselves and the world we live in.”

!e RSO plans on attending an alternative spring break to the Bu$alo River that is being sponsored by the UA O$-Campus Connec-tions. Members plan to assist in cutting and building a trail along a river. !ey also are working toward creating a grant to fund youth groups to allow them to go to Bu$alo River for their mentor program.

“We are going to help with a Family Book Club Celebration & Karaoke Party event at the Springdale Public Library’s Children’s Depart-ment on April 6th,” McLemore said. “Roots and Shoots will also participate in the Great Ameri-can Cleanup as they select an area in Fayette-ville to restore.”

Making the world a better place is the prior-ity of Roots and Shoots, but the members also work on improving themselves, too.

“Our projects and activities will represent the institute and serve to make the environ-ment, other people, and other species more healthy and well, McLemore said. “Additional-ly, a part of our meetings and various service ef-forts consists of our members engaging in and learning about practices to enhance their own

personal well-being. For example, before one of our meetings we practiced tai chi together and will incorporate Yoga and mindfulness activi-ties into future meetings and events.”

Roots and Shoots currently consists of 21 people, who in their endeavor to improve the planet forged friendships.

“My favorite thing about being involved is the sense of community and fellowship I feel with our members and the impact I am having on our environment and in our community,” McLemore said. “It is a very rewarding experi-ence.”

Stephanie EhrlerSta! Writer

Mary McKay Sta" PhotographerJane Goodall speaks at a UA lecture event in October 2012. !e Roots and Shoots RSO works to promote the works of Jane Goodall and to better the environment.

Jane Goodall Inspires RSO’s ActionsRSO OF THE WEEK

“Roots and Shoots promotes understanding of all culture and beliefs because it is a club with values that promote the well-being of the entire environment.”

Whitney OwensWellness coordinator of Roots and Shoots

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!e Arkansas men’s track and "eld team won the 20th NCAA Indoor National Cham-pionship in school history, and its "rst since 2006, Saturday.

Arkansas won three indi-vidual events and had 11 other athletes place in the top eight. !ey "nished with 74 team points, 15 ahead of second-place Florida.

While this is the Razor-backs’ 41st overall national championship in indoor and outdoor track and "eld and cross country, it is their "rst since head coach Chris Buck-nam replaced John McDon-nell.

“It was a tough nut to crack,” Bucknam said. “I hope our alumni and Coach (Mc-Donnell) are happy with what we’ve done. We look at all the national championship ban-ners (hanging from) the ceiling and our number one goal was to make them proud and show them that we were back.”

!e three individual titles came in the heptathlon, pole vault and 4x400-meter relay. !e Hogs also picked up points in the 200, 400, 800, 3,000, 5,000, high jump, long jump and triple jump.

Leading the heptathlon through the "rst six events, junior Kevin Lazas needed a strong performance in the 1,000 run to hold on to the vic-tory.

He "nished the race with a

time of 2 minutes, 49 seconds and collapsed at the "nish line. !at time gave him the "nal 776 points of his 6,175 total points, which was 10 ahead of Wisconsin junior Japheth Cato.

If Lazas "nished just one second slower, his point total would have been one shy of Cato’s.

“I gave it all I had,” Lazas said. “I didn’t have anything le#. I even fell at the "nish line.

I was hurting, so when the scores came up, I got a spark of energy and cheered for a little bit then just laid back down.”

In the pole vault, sopho-more Andrew Irwin failed to clear 18-4 1/2 twice before clearing the bar on his "nal at-tempt. He defended his 2012 indoor title by clearing the bar at a height of 18-8 1/4, his per-sonal best.

“It’s nerve wracking when

it comes down to the third at-tempt,” Irwin said. “I don’t like going to those third attempts, but sometimes you have to.”

Friday, the Razorbacks were in fourth place with a lap and a half to go in the distance med-ley when junior Kemoy Camp-bell dropped the baton. !ey "nished ninth in the race and didn’t earn any points.

When Campbell stepped onto the track Saturday, he only

needed to "nish third or better to clinch the championship for Arkansas. However, this was a long shot because he was seed-ed 15th out of the 16 runners.

He "nished second with a time of 7:46.95.

“(Campbell) dug down and really got a#er it,” Bucknam said. “I think he indoctrinated himself as a true Hog. He knew

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

Every four years, the best of the best basketball players in the nation come together

to create a team that is seem-ingly unbeatable. Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and other stars of the NBA came together last summer to earn gold in the London Olympics.

Unfortunately, when it comes to the World Baseball Classic, it seems only the pretty good of the best deem it wor-thy of their time, at least when it comes to the American-born stars.

MLB Network has released their list of the top 100 players in Major League Baseball, and very few of the top American stars are on the Team USA ros-

ter.Nine of the top 15 players

on the list are American, but only two of those, Ryan Braun and Giancarlo Stanton, are playing in the WBC.

In contrast, four of the top 10 players on the list are from a country besides the United States, and all but one of them is playing for their respective country.

!e second best catcher on the list, Yadier Molina of Puerto Rico, said that there is nothing better than playing with your country’s name on your chest.

!at sentiment doesn’t seem to be shared by many of the American players.

!e only catcher that is believed to be better than Mo-lina, Buster Posey, is American, but he does not appear on the WBC roster.

Playing in the WBC would bring with it the chance of inju-ry that could cost a player dur-ing the MLB season, but many players seem to be less worried about this possibility when it comes to the All-Star game.

!e top two players on the list, Mike Trout of the Angels and Justin Verlander of the Ti-

gers, each appeared on one of the two All-Star game rosters last season along with Posey and each of the other Ameri-cans in the top 15 that are not on the WBC team.

On a team that is supposed to be made up of the best ball-players the United States has to o$er, only six hitters can boast a career batting average over .275.

Reigning National League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey said he wanted to par-ticipate in the WBC to improve upon the third-place "nish he helped Team USA earn in the

1996 Olympics.Despite all of the baseball

talent in the U.S., the Ameri-can team has failed to make it to the championship round in either of the previous WBCs.

For that to change, some of the American talent will have to learn to share Dickey’s un-derstanding of the importance of international competition.

Haley Markle is the assistant sports editor for the Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every Monday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravS-ports.

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TRACK & FIELD TRACK & FIELD

Arkansas’ women’s track and "eld team is still search-ing for their "rst national championship a#er "nishing fourth at the 2013 Indoor Na-tional Championship Satur-day.

!e Razorbacks ended the meet with 42.5 team points, which was 13.5 behind the national champion, Oregon.

Nine athletes quali"ed for the meet and all but one "nished in the top eight and scored points for the team.

Senior Makeba Alcide started things o$ for the Ra-zorbacks Friday, clearing a height of 6-1 1/2 in the high jump. She tied Middle Ten-nessee State senior Ann Dud-ley for sixth in the event.

!e only Razorback not to "nish in the top eight of her event was senior Ivanque Kemp. Her 8.17 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles Friday was ninth in the preliminaries and .02 seconds from qualify-ing her for the "nals.

Day one of the meet ended on a high note for the Razor-backs, as they "nished third in the "nal event of the day, the distance medley. !eir 11:00.23 time was bettered only by Michigan and Villa-nova.

Alcide competed in the pentathlon Saturday, "nishing third with 4,327 points. She actually tied Arizona State senior Keia Pinnick for sec-ond, but because Pinnick had better head-to-head marks in three of the "ve events, Alcide had to settle for third.

Junior Sandi Morris and sophomore Tamara Myers picked up fourth-place "nish-es in the pole vault and triple jump, respectively, for the Ra-zorbacks.

Morris cleared a height of 14-3 1/4, while Myers jumped a distance of 43-10 on her "#h jump, increasing her dis-tance by 4.5 inches.

“Our triple jumper was the real upset. Myers was the ninth quali"er for the "-nal and popped a big jump to move up to fourth,” head coach Lance Harter said. “!ose were the points that were critical.”

Arkansas’ highest "nish of the meet came in the 400. Se-nior Regina George came in second in the 400 with a time of 51.05. Georgia freshman Shaunae Miller edged her by a mere .17 seconds.

Junior Sparkle McKnight "nished seventh in the 400 with a time of 52.52.

In the "nal race of the meet, Arkansas beat Texas by .28 seconds to win their heat of the 4x400 relay. However, their 3:30.63 was still .13 sec-onds behind Oregon.

“I felt like we had it won

Razorbacks Finish 4th NationallyAndrew HutchinsonSta! Writer

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Logan Webster Sta" Photographer!e Razorback men’s track team celebrates after winning the 41st National Championship in program history, and the #rst under #fth-year head coach Chris Bucknam.

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!e Arkansas baseball team rebounded following a four-loss weekend in Arizona by sweeping San Diego State in a four-game series at Baum Sta-dium over the weekend.

In a wild weekend of base-ball, Razorback fans saw a complete game three-hitter by an opposing pitcher, a walk-o$ home run, a near no-hitter and head coach Dave Van Horn’s 1000th career victory.

Arkansas started the series with a 2-0 win over the Aztecs !ursday.

!e Razorbacks scored both runs in the third inning. !e "rst came with sophomore Brian Anderson at bat.

Senior Jacob Mahan at-tempted to steal second base, but when the catcher threw the ball down there, sopho-more Brett McAfee ran home from third. Instead of tagging Mahan for the third out of the inning, San Diego State’s shortstop threw it back to the catcher, who couldn’t get the tag down on McAfee.

Anderson then hit an RBI double that scored Mahan.

!at is all Arkansas got for

the rest of the game as Aztecs’ sophomore Michael Cederoth retired the next 16 batters he faced. He "nished with three walks, seven strikeouts and two earned runs while tossing an eight-inning complete game three-hitter on 114 pitches.

Freshman Colin Poche earned the win for the Razor-backs, going four innings and giving up three hits, striking out two and walking one. Ju-

nior Barrett Astin picked up the save.

Astin now has 15 career saves, which is tied with Bill Bakewell, who played from 1977-79, for second most saves in program history. Phillip Stidham had 33 saves from 1989-91.

!e second game of the se-ries ended on a walk-o$ home run by Joe Serrano with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.

It was Serrano’s "rst home run as a Razorback and gave the Hogs the 4-3 win.

San Diego State sophomore Matt Munoz put the Atzecs on the board "rst with a two-run home run in the second in-ning.

Arkansas responded in the third as wild pitches and a "elding error by the second baseman allowed Serrano and Mahan to score.

An RBI-double in the "#h by San Diego State junior Brad Haynal broke the tie and knocked junior pitcher Ryne Stanek out of the game.

Freshman Tyler Spoon an-swered with an RBI-single in the seventh that tied the game and knocked out the Aztecs’ starting pitcher, junior Philip Walby.

By pitching the "nal 2.2 in-nings of the game, sophomore Jalen Beeks picked up his sec-ond win of the season.

Stanek and Walby each earned a no-decision and gave up three earned runs. Walby gave up six hits, four walks, had three strikeouts and threw 116 pitches in 6.1 innings. Stanek went 4.1 innings and gave up "ve hits, "ve walks and had "ve strikeouts.

Due to the threat of thun-derstorms Sunday, Arkansas played a doubleheader Satur-day.

!e Razorbacks won game one of the doubleheader 8-2, led by freshman Trey Killian, who didn’t give up a hit in sev-en innings of work, and earned Van Horn’s 1000th career vic-tory as a head coach.

Killian was perfect through

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Logan Webster Sta" PhotographerHead coach Dave Van Horn watches as his team completes a four game sweep of the San Diego State Aztecs, earning him the 1,000th win of his career.

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O$ensively, Arkansas had four batters with multiple hits. Mahan went 3-for-3, with a double and an RBI, and reached base twice on walks.

Anderson and sophomore Eric Fisher both went 2-for-4, while Anderson had two RBI and Fisher had a double.

Suggs gave up San Diego State’s only two hits and two earned runs of the game in 1.1 innings, before senior Tyler Wright came in to close out the game.

Aztec senior Ryan Doran took the loss, pitching "ve in-nings and giving up eight hits and three earned runs on 105

pitches.!e Razorbacks used a four-

run seventh inning to win game two of the double header 4-1 and complete the four-game sweep.

San Diego State pulled their starting pitcher, senior Ethan Miller, a#er only 83 pitches, the fewest pitches thrown by an Az-tec starter all weekend.

Arkansas made them pay, as their seven-, eight- and nine-hole batters each had RBIs in the seventh.

Fisher knocked in a run with a single, junior Jacob Morris hit a two-RBI triple and McAfee laid down a safety squeeze bunt to score the fourth run of the inning.

Miller took a no-decision and gave up three hits, one walk and struck out "ve. Fresh-man Bubba Derby took the loss for the Aztecs, giving up four

earned runs on "ve hits.Arkansas’ starter, senior

Randall Fant, also took a no-decision. He went six innings, allowed four hits and struck out three.

Sophomore Michael Gunn earned the victory for the Ra-zorbacks, tossing a perfect in-ning in the seventh. He was also 2-for-2 with a walk at the plate.

San Diego State managed to score a run o$ of Astin in the ninth inning, but that was all they could get.

Leading o$ the eighth in-ning with a single, freshman Tyler Spoon extended his hit streak to 16 games. He has col-lected a hit in every game of his career.

!e Razorbacks return to action with a midweek two-game series against Alabama A&M beginning at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday.

when I crossed the "nish line,” said George, the "nal leg of the relay team. “!e fans were great and the at-mosphere had us feeling like we won it.”

Oklahoma senior Tia Brooks broke the NCAA re-cord in the shot put by throw-

ing a distance of 63-0 3/4. Her mark beat North Caro-lina’s Laura Gerraughty’s 63 feet from 2004.

Oregon won the title with 56 team points, with Kansas (44 points), LSU (43 points), Arkansas (42.5 points) and Central Florida (30 points)

rounding out the top "ve teams.

“We had a great week-end,” Harter said. “We were seeded third and there was 1.5 points separating second and fourth place. We had one great performance a#er an-other.”

FINISH continued from page 7we needed the points and he went out and got it done.”

Despite the outcome of the meet no longer being in ques-tion, Arkansas’ 4x400 relay team ended it with an exclama-tion point. !ey won the race and broke the NCAA record with a time of 3:03.50.

“It was the most intensity we’ve ever had,” said Anton Ko-korin, the runner of the second leg of the relay team. “Knowing that we had it won before the race, we still wanted to go out and show that we were national champions in the 4x400.”

In the 200, seniors Akheem Gauntlett and Marek Niit "n-

ished fourth and seventh, re-spectively. Gauntlett had a time of 20.67 seconds, while Niit "n-ished in 20.89 seconds.

Freshman Tomas Squella and sophomore Patrick Rono placed sixth and seventh in the 800, respectively. Squella ran a 1:49.20 and Rono ran a 1:50.84.

!e Razorbacks also had two athletes place in the long jump, with junior Raymond Higgs "nishing third and fresh-man Jarrion Lawson "nishing fourth. !ey had distances of 26 1/4 and 26-0, respectively.

Arkansas’ other top "nishers were senior Tarik Batchelor in the triple jump (53-11 1/4), se-

nior Anton Kokorin in the 400 (46.09), junior Stanley Kebenei in the 5,000 (13:45.87) and ju-nior Anthony May in the high jump (7-3 3/4). !ey "nished third, "#h, seventh and eighth, respectively, in their events.

“To get this done, you need a special group of athletes,” Buck-nam said. “I’m really proud of how these guys got it together. We followed the plan, and we came in here and got it done.”

Wisconsin (33 points), Tex-as A&M (30 points) and Texas Tech (28 points) rounded out the top "ve teams at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championship.

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